Why did the British and French forces burn down the Old Summer Palace

On the one hand, it is believed that the blood and fire nature of imperialism in its foreign expansion dictates the barbarism wherever they go. On the other hand, it is believed that it was caused by "kowtow diplomacy".

At that time, Britain and France demanded negotiations with the Manchus, "envoys to Beijing, travel to the interior, and trade on the Yangtze River," that is, people wanted to come and establish diplomatic relations with you and set up embassies and consulates for each other. Foreigners can travel to Chinese mainland and trade with China. At that time, Britain and France demanded negotiations with China on the above three points, and according to the current understanding, all kinds of disputes between China and Britain are very normal in state-to-state relations and should be resolved through bilateral consultations and negotiations.

By burning down the Old Summer Palace, Ergin wanted to send a message that it was the Chinese emperor and his minions, not the Chinese people, who were responsible for atrocities such as the arrest of ministers and the mistreatment of prisoners. A few days before the retaliation, Ergin ordered the following proclamation to be posted throughout the city of Beijing, declaring the purpose of the burning of the Old Summer Palace by the Anglo-French forces:

No one, no matter how high in status, can escape responsibility and punishment for committing fraud and atrocities; The Old Summer Palace was to be burned down on October 18, 1860, as punishment for the treachery of the Chinese emperor; Only the Qing Empire** was responsible, and the common people who had nothing to do with the atrocities had no need to worry about being harmed. ”

Only part of it was burned, note that during the Guangxu period, the Old Summer Palace was still being repaired, and it was destroyed again after the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, and the warlords destroyed it again after the abdication of the Qing Dynasty, and it was destroyed again after liberation. At that time, the man-made houses in Beijing lacked building materials, and they were all pulled in the Old Summer Palace, and the degree of destruction by the British and French forces was actually not very high.

They want China's land, and the winter in Beijing is coming, and the Qing ** still doesn't agree, and the troops have no winter clothes, so they have to use this to blackmail.

1. It caused a great shock to China and its Huangdao.

2. Destroy evidence.

In order to grab the things in your hands ** higher.

Typical robbers, robbers do just that.

Prove that "I've been here"! I've been here, I've conquered!

Robbers are always like this: what can't be taken away, destroyed.

What I don't get will be dropped.

According to historical facts, in fact, the fire of the Old Summer Palace was set by the ** stationed in the Old Summer Palace The rest is the time when the British and French forces burned and looted The Old Summer Palace was looted and burned by the British and French forces in October 1860, which became a page of humiliation in modern Chinese history.

Hello, glad to answer for you. Why did the Anglo-French forces destroy the Old Summer Palace? Hello, according to the library.

Hello dear. Because after the British minister Ergin and the British commander Grant saw the hostages and corpses, they thought that only the destruction of the Old Summer Palace could deal a great blow to the Chinese emperor. Therefore, they regarded the splendid imperial gardens as the private property of the Chinese emperor, and became the object of revenge and personal anger of the coalition forces.

The means by which the Anglo-French forces destroyed the Old Summer Palace were very cruel, and the crimes committed by the Anglo-French forces in China cannot be forgotten by the Chinese:

In the process of looting by the British and French forces, many people near the Old Summer Palace also rushed to enter, some of them led the way for the British and French forces, and some looted the treasures privately. After plundering with the Anglo-French army, some people did it again, and they brought fuel to the Anglo-French army to help burn the garden. In this way, with the joint efforts of the British and French forces and some people near the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, the Old Summer Palace was no longer prosperous.

After suffering from looting and "fire robbery", the Old Summer Palace was not completely destroyed, according to the Qing court's later investigation, there were still 13 landscapes left in the Old Summer Palace at this time, and part of the mountain-shaped water system was not destroyed. However, this remaining integrity did not escape the catastrophe, but rather the beginning of its catastrophe.

After the Second Opium War, the Qing court suffered another defeat, and the First Sino-Japanese War was defeated by Japan, a small peninsular country that was once despised; The Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, and was directly powerless to fight back, and after Cixi and others fled westward, Beijing became the target of the invaders again.